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Who Was Hitler's Grandfather? ... (Massoud Malek, USA, 08/28/14 3:45 pm) Again, I would like to thank Nigel Jones for his extremely informative posts on Hitler (most recently, 26 August). Sir Ian Kershaw is a British historian whose work has chiefly focused on the pe ...
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*Mein Kampf* and Hitler's "Conversion" to Anti-Semitism ... (Massoud Malek, USA, 08/26/14 4:02 am) I would like to thank Nigel Jones for his informative post on Hitler (25 August). As a child, Hitler was influenced by his Austrian history teacher, Leopold Poetsch, who asserted that the Aryan ...
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Answers to Hitler Questions ... (Nigel Jones, -UK, 08/26/14 3:28 am) Answering Robert Whealey's questions about Hitler (25 August) in the order they were posed: Hitler's family on both his mother's and father's side came from the Waldviertel, a ...
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Some Hitler Questions ... (Robert Whealey, USA, 08/25/14 4:00 pm) In response to Nigel Jones (25 August), Hitler did not start thinking about the "Jewish Question" in 1923. Most people in Germany held a wide variety attitudes toward the Jewish people, as d ...
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Hitler, Mussolini, Anti-Semitism ... (Eugenio Battaglia, Italy, 08/25/14 11:48 am) A small curiosity. In my previous post about Mussolini I indicated that he was the only world leader who according to both the Pope and a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad (God bless Him), was sent ...
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Hitler's Anti-Semitism ... (Nigel Jones, -UK, 08/25/14 6:39 am) Since Hitler and the rise of Nazism are among my specialist subjects, I hope that Robert Whealey and Massoud Malek won't mind if I make some small corrections to their posts on the subject. ...
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Hitler's Anti-Semitism ... (Massoud Malek, USA, 08/25/14 2:10 am) On 23 August, Robert Whealey wrote: "Hitler came to power in 1933 because of three political events. First, the defeat of the German Army in November 1918. Two, the collapse of Weimar econo ...
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re: Holocaust: Voyage of SS St Louis (John Heelan, UK) ... (John Eipper, USA, 10/22/06 3:32 pm) John Heelan sends this response to Bienvenido Macario's 21 October post on the ill-fated 1939 voyage of the *SS St Louis*: There is a very good account of the SS St. Louis and the tragic ...
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re: Hitler and the Jews (Vincent Littrell, Belgium) ... (John Eipper, USA, 10/22/06 3:27 pm) Vincent Littrell writes: Rereading Christopher Jones's comment from 18 October, "Of course, Adolf Hitler only wished the best for the world, and the Allies were led to believe that hi ...
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Re: The Holocaust: The case of David Irving. (Harry Papasotiriou, Greece) ... (John Eipper, USA, 03/15/06 3:42 pm) David Irving was sentenced to three years in jail in Austria on charges of being a Holocaust denier. We asked if this might make him a martyr. Harry Papasotiriou writes from Greece: While I find Da ...
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for Whom the Bell Tolls: The case of David Irving. (Israel Shamir) ... (John Eipper, USA, 03/14/06 6:35 am) We posted part of the long Wikipedia article on that odd character, Israel Shamir, without of course endorsing him or his ideas. Here is a piece by him about the David Irving case, which is little kn ...
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AUSCHWITZ FOOTNOTE (Christopher Jones) ... (John Eipper, USA, 01/31/06 9:24 am) Christopher Jones writes:In another post I mentioned the German magistrate who investigated the possible REPEAT POSSIBLE FOR LEGAL CLARITY hoax at Auschwitz but I misspelled his name: Judge Wilhelm St ...
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